Dr. Petra van Langen (board secretary)

Dr. Petra van Langen (1968) is a musicologist and a historian of culture. She is employed at the University Library in Utrecht. In 2014 she completed her PHD on catholic musicians and the confessionalization of Dutch music life between 1850 and 1948. She is currently working on a biography of Albert Smijers, the first Dutch professor in musicology. She served as board secretary of KVNM from 2004 until 2009, and took up this position again in 2015.